Roman fresco on back wall of the peristylium from the House of Venus in a Shell (built in the 1st century BCE in Pompeii). The goddess of love is depicted inside a shell, after its birth, according to the myth reported by the Greek poet Hesiod. [800×422]

(OC) Before and after of a digital restoration to a tondo from an Attic red-figure kylix by Kachrylion (Greek potter), it depicts Eros flying above the sea and holding a flower (love gift). , ca. 510–500 BCE. [4098 x 1535]

Roman bronze sculpture perhaps depicting Bacchus. Object dated to the mid 1st century BCE. The bust is a Roman copy of an original Hellenistic figure. Currently located in National Archaeological Museum in Naples. Photo was taken in XIX century. [564×711]

Ancient Egyptian relief carving of Caesarion offering ointment to Horus and Isis, mid-1st century BCE. Caesarion was the last Pharaoh of Egypt and son of Cleopatra VII (and possibly Julius Caesar). [8096×2904]

Anthropoid Clay Coffin with face lid and crossed arms. An example of a grotesque face lid -associated with the later coffins of the 11th-10th centuries BCE and the construction practices of the Philistines [2560 x 1920]